Survival Instinct- Forces of Change by Sandi Gamble

Author:Sandi Gamble [Gamble, Sandi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780992284633
Publisher: Ambitions Publishing
Published: 2018-12-29T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

THAT DAY, AND WHAT ENSUED

I hazarded a quick glance back to the beach and then again upwards towards the sky. In my life, I had never felt or seen anything like it… I felt a tug, a hesitancy to move but Jace continued to grip my hand tightly.

“Ari, come!”

He was yanking me with him, in the direction of his vehicle.

We had barely spoken since the event. What could we say? What would we say? Neither of us could find words to describe what was happening. We could not grasp it. There was no boundary or context to whatever it was. We had no idea what was happening, could have no idea. Not then. All we knew, and this thing we knew with the deepest certainty of our souls, was that something was very, very wrong.

Nothing in our studies at the Academy had prepared us to confront the phenomena that was occurring all around us. Nothing I had heard, read about or even imagined came close to giving definition to what was happening. Nowhere in any written history that I had ever read or heard about described anything that even came close to what we were seeing and feeling.

Which only added to the sense of urgency, desperation and foreboding we felt.

“Come on!” Jace screamed.

Together we ran, jumped into Jace’s vehicle and started towards home. There was a moment, a very brief moment that seemed to last for an eternity when Jace pressed the ignition point, and nothing responded. During that seeming infinity, my heart leapt to my throat. And then, perhaps in reality only a nanosecond later, the roar of turbos and we were on our way, heading away from the beach and towards home, taking the quickest route possible.

We were not alone in seeking the main road from the beach. Although we had found an isolated area of the beach, there was a great deal of coastline. Thousands of others had taken advantage of the day.

As a result, traffic was at a near standstill over the bridge that linked the city to the beach.

“Hurry!” I cried, my fingers gripping the dash in front of me. “Hurry!”

I looked at Jace and could see the tension in his jaw and his neck. I knew he was determined to go as fast as he could, but I couldn’t help myself from yelling for him to do so anyway. He jerked the vehicle one way and then the next, trying to find an edge to the hordes of people who were feeling the exact panic that we were feeling. The only difference? We would be called upon to do something about whatever it was that is happening!

We had to get to the city!

In starts and stops, we crawled over the bridge and onto the broader highway. Once there, the traffic sped up, but not by much.

“I know a way,” he said, as much to himself as to me. He jetted to the nearest off ramp and took a convoluted route on a winding, uncertain journey through towns and villages, on country roads and graveled roadways.

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